X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow ...
Some 100 Venezuelan journalists are using two AI avatars to host daily newscasts and avoid putting themselves at risk, amid President Maduro's media crackdown
“In the four weeks since Venezuela's disputed election, local journalists have come up with a distinctly 21st-century tactic … See also Mediagazer
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro blocks X in the country for 10 days, accusing Elon Musk of using X to incite hate after Venezuela's disputed election
How tech from London-based AI startup Synthesia, backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government
Financial Times : Tweets: @mohamed , @madhumita29 , and @joeparkdan See also Mediagazer Tweets: Mohamed Nanabhay / @mohamed : Generative AI used to create fake news readers who spread disinformation ...
How tech from Synthesia, an AI startup backed by Kleiner Perkins and GV, is being used to make deepfake news videos promoted by Venezuela's government
UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government — As Venezuela prepared for carnival season …
US officials say sanctioned countries are increasingly manipulating the GPS-based automatic identification systems, or AIS, of ships to evade international law
A technology enabling the transmission of fake locations to carry out murky or even illegal business operations … Tweets: @aliabunimah , @indianexpress , @amidaniel1 , @steve_e , @akurmanaev , @akurma...
How AI data-labeling companies like Appen profit from cheap labor in crisis-ridden countries like Venezuela to meet exploding demand
It was meant to be a temporary side job—a way to earn some extra money. Oskarina Fuentes Anaya signed up for Appen, an AI data-labeling platform … Tweets: @miad , @akurmanaev , @skinosian , and @char...
A look at Axie Infinity “managers”, who loan in-game NFTs to other players in exchange for a cut of any profits and depend on a constant influx of new players
Managers in play-to-earn game Axie Infinity employ large teams of “scholars” who can't afford their own NFTs even as the game's economy spirals. Tweets: @bigblackjacobin , @tolstoybb , @willoremus , @...
MetaMask says an Infura “misconfiguration”, which has since been corrected, led to users in Venezuela reporting an inability to access the wallet on Thursday
MK Manoylov / The Block :
A behind-the-scenes account on the creation of Petro, Venezuela's oil-backed cryptocurrency, whose author fled the country after becoming subject to persecution
a high-stakes cryptocurrency tale about an idealist who agreed to create a digital coin for the dictator of Venezuela. https://www.nytimes.com/... Nathaniel Popper / @nathanielpopper : This is the fir...